CNAME Record

There are numerous ways to redirect a domain address to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by creating a CNAME record. In case you own a domain name and you've created a website through some on-line service which provides you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by creating a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you'll achieve in this way is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is important to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain name may have will stop functioning, so you cannot have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working email addresses with a different one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and sometimes additional configuration may be necessary with the other provider.

CNAME Records in Shared Hosting

You can effortlessly create CNAME records provided you have a shared plan from our company. We are going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you could see all DNS records for the domains and subdomains which are hosted inside the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a number of basic steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, type in the hostname you are pointing to, after that just click on the Save button. The process is as easy as that and the new record is going to be active almost instantly. This way, you're going to have more control over your domain addresses and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company emails, and much more. If you feel unclear about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, we have a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it'll take you literally just a click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing DNS records usually seems to be a difficult task to the people with less experience, but the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with every semi-dedicated plan that we offer, is quite easy to use. If you'd like to create a CNAME record for any purpose, all you will have to do will be to choose the domain or subdomain that you need, select the type of record, that will be CNAME in this case, then enter the value i.e. the domain name or subdomain you are forwarding to. The procedure is very easy and you can set up the record in the DNS Records section of the CP. Within the hour the new record will be 100 % active and within a few hours it is going to propagate around the globe. If you're not sure what you have to do, we've prepared a comprehensive help article and a short video tutorial on how to go about creating a CNAME record and they are both situated in that same section of Hepsia. Of course, you can also get in touch with us for assistance anytime.